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2014-10-27T12:15:07.651748Z

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To ask Her Majesty's Government how many prosecutions of brothel owners or managers
are (1) pending, and (2) completed, following the removal of women from their premises to
Yarl's Wood and other detention centres.

<p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of the number
of prosecutions of defendants charged with offences of keeping a brothel or of controlling
prostitution. This information could only be obtained by a manual examination of CPS
case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p>While the CPS does not
collect data on defendants prosecuted by specific offence or the outcome of any prosecution,
information is available for the number of offences concerning the keeping or management
of brothels and controlling prostitution, in which a prosecution commenced at magistrates’
courts. The table below shows the number of these offences recorded on the CPS’s Case
Management System in each financial year over the last ten years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td><p><strong>2008-2009</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009-2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual
Offences Act 1956 { 33 }</p></td><td><p>83</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual
Offences Act 1956 { 33A }</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>106</p></td><td><p>92</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>72</p></td><td><p>75</p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p>63</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual
Offences Act 2003 { 52 }</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual
Offences Act 2003 { 53 }</p></td><td><p>93</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>92</p></td><td><p>64</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>323</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>207</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>265</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>207</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>135</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>108</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>174</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>203</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>186</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>168</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td
colspan="3"><p>Data Source: CPS Management Information System</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>It should be noted that the figures relate to the number of offences and not
the number of individual defendants. It is often the case that an individual defendant
is charged with more than one offence against the same victim.</p><p> </p><p> </p>

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Keen of Elie on
30 July (HL17215), whether it is their policy to prosecute brothel owners and managers
when women are removed to detention centres from their premises, in view of the probability
of offences of trafficking or slavery.

<p>Official data regarding prosecutions are held by the Ministry of Justice, but the
department does not record it in a form which allows it to distinguish between overseas
bribery and domestic bribery.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst not official data, the Crown Prosecution
Service (CPS) and the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) record data for their own management
information purposes. In the last five years, the SFO has successfully prosecuted
three British companies and 10 individuals, nine of whom were British citizens, for
bribery or corruption overseas (offences under the Bribery Act 2010 or the Prevention
of Corruption Act 1906).</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this the SFO has secured three
Deferred Prosecution Agreements with British companies in the past two years for overseas
corruption offences. The first agreement included a financial penalty of $25m, plus
SFO’s full costs; the second resulted in financial orders of £6.6m and the most recent
one was for £497.25m plus interest, as well as a payment of the SFO’s full costs.</p><p>
</p><p>CPS’s data measures the outcome of prosecutions against defendants but not
on the outcome against individual offences. This information could only be obtained
by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p>

To ask Her Majesty's Government what information, if any, they have received from
North Africa, the Middle East and Europe about successful prosecutions for offences
connected with trafficking in persons; and if none, whether they will call for better
intelligence sharing about such crimes.

<p>There is no information held about successful prosecutions for offences connected
with trafficking in persons in North Africa, the Middle East and Europe.</p><p>However,
the UK shares relevant information on organised immigration crime (OIC) with partners
in source, transit and destination countries for illegal migration. This takes place
both on a bilateral basis and through the European Migrant Smuggling Centre within
Europol.</p><p>Through the multi-agency Organised Immigration Crime Taskforce, the
government is improving the intelligence picture around OIC, modern slavery and human
trafficking, undermining the criminal business model and building the capacity of
upstream law enforcement partners to tackle the threat.</p><p>The police transformation
program includes an analytical team, the Joint Slavery and Trafficking Analysis Centre
(JSTAC) which is building and developing the strategic intelligence picture by improving
data collection and focused analysis of the information gathered. To aid in international
dissemination of information, a seconded national expert to Europol to coordinate
activity between UK law enforcement and European counterparts during cross-border
investigations has been implemented.</p>

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have for the reuse of the sites of
former coal-fired power stations; and whether any such plans include using those sites
for (1) alternative energy production, (2) industrial and employment uses, and (3)
housing, in particular social housing.

<p>The Government has a clear policy to close all unabated coal power generation by
2025. Decisions on the reuse of the sites of former coal-fired power stations will
be for the commercial owners or operators.</p>

<p>We have no current plans to establish a national fuel fund.</p><p>The Government
provides support to those struggling with their gas and electricity bills through:</p><p>•
The Warm Home Discount, which provides a £140 rebate to more than two million households;</p><p>•
Winter Fuel Payments, that provides £200-300 to pensioners, ensuring that they can
keep warm during the colder months; and</p><p>• Cold Weather Payments, which were
automatically provided to more than one million households during winter 2018-19.</p><p>In
addition, the default tariff cap protects all consumers on default tariffs from being
overcharged and Ofgem’s safeguard price cap protects consumers on pre-payment meter
tariffs.</p><p>The most sustainable approach to decreasing energy bills is improving
energy efficiency.</p><p>• The Energy Company Obligation drives £640 million of investment
annually into improving the efficiency of low income and vulnerable households.</p><p>•
The Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards require landlords spend up to £3500 (including
VAT) improving their rented properties to EPC Band E.</p>

Her Majesty's Government, further to the statement by Lord Prior of Brampton on 11
July (HL Deb) on Good work: the Taylor review of modern working practices, why no
reference was made to zero-hours contracts; what consideration they are giving to
increasing the level of employment rights protections afforded to workers employed
under such contracts towards the level afforded to full-time workers, or the self-employed;
and whether they intend to introduce a right to weekly guaranteed minimum paid hours.

<p>The oral statement referred to was to bring to the notice of the House the publication
of the independent Matthew Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices. Zero hours contracts
are just one example of a working practice in the UK labour market and Matthew in
his review has considered the labour market as a whole. I refer the noble Lord to
the full transcript of the <a href="http://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2017-07-11/debates/805C6758-D847-475F-98D2-49F75499FAF8/TaylorReviewOfModernWorkingPractices"
target="_blank">statement</a> where zero hours contracts are discussed.</p><p> </p><p>This
Government will give the report the careful consideration it deserves and will respond
in full later this year.</p>

<p>Government has not made an estimate of the social and economic consequences of
restricting zero hour contracts to students and pensioners.</p><p>Further to my oral
statement in the House on 11 July regarding the publication of the independent Review
of Modern Working Practices by Matthew Taylor, the Review concluded that the UK has
employment levels and rates that are at historic highs. It also concluded that the
UK is widely recognised as having one of the most flexible labour markets in the world
and many people working on atypical contracts value the flexibility that they bring
and choose to work this way.</p>

Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the TUC estimate that some
500,000 workers are on zero-hours contracts or in insecure temporary employment; and
what percentage of the total workforce aged 21 to 65 this represents.

<p>The latest ONS Labour Force Survey shows that the number of people who report they
are on a ‘zero hour contract’ in their main employment was 905,000 in the 4<sup>th</sup>
quarter of 2016, which represents 2.8% of those in employment ages 16-65+, with nearly
70% happy with their hours.</p><p>Due to the age categories in which ONS reports this
data, it is not possible to get a figure for 21 to 65 years old.</p>

<p>The latest ONS Labour Force Survey shows the number of people reporting to be self-employed
was 4.8 million in the 4<sup>th</sup> quarter of 2016.</p><p>Due to the age categories
in which ONS reports this data, it is not possible to get a figure for 21 to 65 year
olds.</p><p>However, as a proportion of the total number of people in employment (31,713,000),
self-employed people between the ages of 25 and 64 account for 13.1% of total employment.
Self-employed people between the ages of 18 and 64 account for 13.7% of total employment.</p>